Wise Poets of the Present
Rhyme Schemes for Wise Poets
The English language lends itself so well to rhyme that rhyme is common in English poetry, except for blank verse which has meter and no rhyme and free verse poetry….
Poet Laureate Georgette LeBlanc: Canada’s Choice Bard
Poet Laureate Georgette LeBlanc: Canada’s Choice Bard The honor of being named Poet Laureate of Canada is a fairly new post created by the Canadian Parliament. It was created in…
A Now Poetic Voice of the Covid 19 Age
A Now Poetic Voice of the Covid 19 Age They say history repeats itself, and in 1918, we had a worldwide flu epidemic like the world had never seen before….
Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner
Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner I am very pleased to announce that our dailywisdomwords.com Fall poetry contest winner is poet and blogger Cathy Mellen. Congrats Cathy! 1. Where…
Jericho Brown and His Long Path to Recognition
While not all great poets don’t chose big education as their chosen path to success, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown chose that challenging path for himself. Writer Malcolm Gladwell,…
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium…
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type…
Stephen King The Master of Dark Fiction: Halloween Horror Month Part I
Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and…
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat No lengthy discussion of poetry in the English speaking world would be complete without recognizing a great poet of present day…
The Invisible Writer: A Lesson Learned in Simplicity
Writers are sometimes temperamental creatures, as artists go, and I was sometimes temperamental and a little over confident in my skills, since it takes a fairly strong ego to think…
More Wisdom Lessons Learned About Writing
Dear Writing community, I just want to apologize for the lateness of this blog post. I have been very deeply under the health weather, but it is not due to…
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years I am a strictly a poet and a non-fiction writer, so writing fiction is out of my league….
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea 1. When did you start writing and why? Kattt – I started writing in my late teens. My niece…
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature The Chicana writers are a group of poets and authors of a current Mexican/American “cultural hybridity” tradition. And Sandra Cisneros is one of…
Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview
Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview 1, Michelle, can you tell us where you are from and a little about your current life, work and any special…
Abuh Monday and His Wise Reflections on His Life and Works
Abuh Monday and His Wise Reflections on His Life and Works Nigeria is one place like any other place that possesses the ability of making and destroying a man and…
Modern Sonnet
Modern Sonnet Although the forms of the classical 14 line Petrarchan and English sonnets were written in stone, time marches on and with that onward march comes change. The post…
Twitter Driven Micro Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets
Twitter Driven Micro-Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets The decade of the 90’s sand beyond 2000 was the age of the short poem, with the submission guidelines averaging…
Wise Poets of the Past
Francis Pharcellus Church: Little Virginia’s Secret Journalism Santa
Francis Pharcellus Church: Little Virginia’s Secret Journalism Santa A child’s letter to the editor questioning the existence of Santa Claus challenged the imagination of a crusty old, cynical newspaper writer…
Kahlil Gibran: America’s Mystical Immigrant
Kahlil Gibran: America’s Mystical Immigrant Kahlil Gibran, born on January 6, 1883 in a Lebanese village in the exotic Ottoman Empire, is most famous for his best selling book, :”The…
Oscar Wilde: Flamboyance Personified
Oscar Wilde: Flamboyance Personified Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, born on October 16 in 1854, was not just famous for his long name and writings which were shocking in his…
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Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules
Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules There are definite difference between poetry and prose. Poetry is written in verse form and relies on picturesque speech, metaphor, imagery, can bend the…
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III Ah, Agatha Christie, Her wildly popular murder mysteries have kept readers gleefully occupied on cold winter nights for decades….
e e cummings: The Experimental Poet
Today’s prevailing wisdom in literary circles is that language is fluid and the rules of grammar can be bent, as long as the skilled author intuitively knows it works. And…
Emma Lazarus Wants “Your Tired and Your Poor
The Iconic poem ‘The New Colossus” was one sonnet all American children had to read in school, at least those of us in the Baby Boom generation. And the words…
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Radical English Poet of Social Change
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England to a well heeled noble family and enjoyed a pleasant rural childhood. And although his father Timothy Shelley…
Johnathan Edwards Preached the American House Down
Tucked deep in the annals of classic American literature you will find a recorded sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that literally brought the Thirteen Colonies…
H.I.E. Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid
HIE Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid South Africa is a land rich in history and literature which can boast of up to eleven official languages, including English….
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist Emerson may have been an ordained minister and the son of an ordained minister, but he was anything but a Christian. He was…
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense Some poets are famous for only one poem, and Francis Scott Key, a Fredrick, Maryland lawyer is the amateur poet who…
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World Mary Oliver was such a natural born poet that she started writing by the young age of 14, eventually winning…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Sonnet Elizabeth Browning was the proverbial child prodigy who began writing at the early age of 11, and her lifetime body…
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of the Wise Poets
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of Wise Poets Form. Form. Form. Form is what the sonnet is all about. All types of sonnets are written by the same basic rules…
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry Award winning Cuban poetess Excilia Saldaña is the Wise Poet of this week. Born in on August 7, 1946, she was raised…
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South William Faulkner, he was the legend the English class who was known as the writer whose intellect was so big that…